The woman – who was made available to me for an interview by GQ reporter Jason Zengerle in response to the Paul campaign’s denunciations of his article – said she didn’t mean to imply that she was kidnapped "in a legal sense." "The whole thing has been blown out of proportion," she told me. "They didn’t force me, they didn’t make me. They were creating this drama: `We’re messing with you.’" The woman said that much of the subsequent coverage of her allegations missed a key nuance: As a participant in a college ritual, where lines between acquiescence and victimization are often blurry, she was largely playing along with the notion that she was being forced to follow Paul’s orders. "I went along because they were my friends," she said. "There was an implicit degree of cooperation in the whole thing. I felt like I was being hazed"…<\/div>\n
"[They] came over to my house as friends that I knew," she told me. "They immediately said, `We’re going to tie you up and go for a ride.’" She reiterated that they took her to a room filled with pot smoke and told her to partake, but she emphasized that she hadn’t been forced. "He did not drug me," she said. "He did not force me physically in any way." She said they then "took me out to this creek and made me worship Aqua Buddha." And she added that the whole thing was so "weird" that afterwards she ended relations with Paul and his friends…<\/p>\n
And in response to this latest round of allegations, the Paul campaign claimed vindication about the "kidnapping" while again declining to directly address the lurid charges about the prank. "It is satisfying to see the libelous and grossly irresponsible charges of kidnapping completely shot down," Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton emailed. "It remains puzzling to us why the drive-by media continues to focus on an alleged 30 year old teenage prank when our nation faces high unemployment, a thirteen trillion dollar debt and are threatened with a Cap and Trade national energy tax<\/font><\/strong>."<\/p>\nPaul has also tried to discount the woman’s claims as coming from "one anonymous source." In our conversation, she elaborated that she doesn’t want her name in print because she’s a clinical psychologist who works with former members of the military, some of whom are Tea Partyers, and fears that complicating Paul’s Senate run could put her in danger.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Now he’s done it! I was just funning with Rand’s silliness until I read "
the drive-by media<\/font><\/strong>" – Rush Limbaugh’s signature euphemism for the Press. In that word usage, his spokesperson has revealed that he’s part of the vast right wing conspiracy [or, more likely, just another a cheeky jerk like Rush]. It is not Rand Paul’s youthful [bad taste] pranks that are at issue, it’s his arrogant right-now attitude that matters. His dad, Ron Paul, is outspoken, Conservative to a fault, but he’s a reasonable person. Rand isn’t. If he pulled a stupid prank like the one described here, there are plenty more in the closet waiting to be dusted off. And his arrogance is an invitation to start finding them – driving by more often…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Rand Paul’s accuser clarifies "kidnapping" Washington Post by Greg Sargent August 11, 2010 The woman who sparked a national firestorm by recounting Rand Paul’s youthful indiscretions to GQ magazine is now clarifying her account: She says she was not kidnapped nor forced to do drugs by Paul. But she reiterated other odd aspects of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}